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say it: HER-ing
herring is a noun meaning "valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled". It is pronounced /ˈhɛɹɪŋ/ — HER-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled
commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for herring come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.